CATEGORIES

Genes

LATEST

TRENDING

EDITORS CHOICE

Are Your Patients Asking about Wegovy?

Ten common questions about popular anti-obesity medications

DNA, Dollars, and Dilemmas

Should advances in DNA sequencing go the way of Waze and credit cards?

The Power of Lifestyle Choices – The Dose of Truth in “Heal Thyself”

“You need to lose weight.”   Doctors say that to patients every day.  What they don’t do is tell patients how to do it.  That’s...

FBN1 gene, fibrillin 1

The FBN1 gene provides instructions for making a large protein called fibrillin-1. This protein is transported out of cells into the extracellular matrix, which is an intricate lattice of proteins and other molecules that forms in the spaces between cells.